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arc as certainly new. Fig. llSrt, 118/&amp;gt;, represent these two knives 

 (8!)rS()[l(l(2], SOrS&amp;lt;i |l(Milj), which have the blades lashed on with deer 

 sinew. It is worthy of note in this connection that there are no stone 

 knives ot this pattern in the museum from any other locality. 



The women employ for all purposes for which a knife or scissors could 

 bo used a semicircular knifeof the same, general type as those described 

 by every writer from the days of Egede, who has had to deal with the 



FlQ. 118. Slatf-blaili-il rnmkwl knives. 



Eskimo. The knives at the present day are made of steel, usually, and 

 perhaps always, of a piece of a. saw blade, which gives a sheet of steel of 

 the proper breadth and thickness, and are manufactured by the natives 

 themselves. Dr. Simpson says that in his time they were brought 

 from Kotzcbue Sound by the Xunatafimiun, who obtained them from the 

 Siberian Kskimo. There are in the collection three of these steel knives, 

 all of the small size generally called uluri! (&quot; little I lln&quot;) 

 has been picked out for description (Fiji. 110). 

 The blade is wedged into a handle of walrus 

 ivory. The ornamentation on the handle is 

 of incised lines and dots blackened. The cut 

 ting edge of the blade is beveled on one face 

 only. This knife represents the general 

 shape of knives of this sort, but is rather * -iiu-w,m,an kniiKs.,,1 i,i:,,i, . 

 smaller than most of them. I have seen some knives with blades fully 

 5 or (! inches long and deep in proportion. The handle is almost always 

 of walrus ivory and of the shape figured. I do not remember ever 

 seeing an ulu blade secured otherwise than by fitting it tightly into a 

 narrow slit in the handle, except in one case, when the handle was part 

 of the original handle of the saw of which the knife was made, left 

 still riveted on. 



It is not necessary to specify the various purposes for which these 

 knives are used. Whenever a woman wishes to c ut anything, from her 

 food to a thread in her sewing, slit; uses an ulu in preference to anything 

 else. The knife is handled precisely as described among the eastern 

 Kskimo. making the cut by pushing instead of drawing, 2 thus differing 

 from the long-handled round knife mentioned above. Knives of this 



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for &quot;xuinplr, Kumlii ii, op. cjt., p. 26. 



